In a blockbuster report, John Solomon, the former Associated Press and Post reporter, has ferreted out the president’s daily brief that informed him within 72 hours of the Sept. 11 attack that the Benghazi attack was a jihadist operation.

Citing officials directly familiar with the information, Solomon writes in the Washington Guardian that Obama and other administration officials were told that “that the attack was likely carried out by local militia and other armed extremists sympathetic to al-Qaida in the region.”

He adds:

The details from the CIA and Pentagon assessments of the killing of Ambassador Chris [Stevens] were far more specific, more detailed and more current than the unclassified talking points that UN Ambassador Susan Rice and other officials used five days after the attack to suggest to Americans that an unruly mob angry over an anti-Islamic video was to blame, officials said.

Most of the details affirming al-Qaida links were edited or excluded from the unclassified talking points used by Rice in appearances on news programs the weekend after the attack, officials confirmed Friday. Multiple agencies were involved in excising information, doing so because it revealed sources and methods, dealt with classified intercepts or involved information that was not yet fully confirmed, the officials said.

Solomon cautions that there were bits of evidence pointing to a spontaneous attack but, as Eli Lake of the Daily Beast and others have reported, he writes: “Among the early evidence cited in the briefings to the president and other senior officials were intercepts showing some of the participants were known members or supporters of Ansar al-Sharia — the al-Qaida-sympathizing militia in Libya — and the AQIM, which is a direct affiliate of al-Qaida in northern Africa, the officials said.”

How could the president and his senior staff then have allowed (or rather, sent) Rice to go out to tell an entirely different tale to the American people on Sept. 16 on five TV shows?

This report indicates that the president certainly knew that Benghazi wasn’t a rogue movie review gone bad. He had information that plainly spelled out what was later confirmed by additional intelligence. If this information was too confidential to share with the public, at the very least the president and others should not have mislead voters.

This is a full-blown scandal, and in light of this information, the press corps’s slothful indifference to uncovering the truth at Wednesday’s news conference with Obama is all the more shocking. It is time for the president to come clean. The scandal has now enveloped the Oval Office and will define his second term, if not resolved satisfactorily.

The irony of this is that Rice may well have been used as a patsy, unaware that she was sent out to spin a misleading tale. My colleague Dana Milbank recounts Rice’s long-standing inability to get along with others and to be circumspect in her pronouncements:

It’s true that, in her much-criticized TV performance, she was reciting talking points given to her by the intelligence agencies. But that’s the trouble. Rice stuck with her points even though they had been contradicted by the president of the Libyan National Assembly, who, on CBS’s ‘Face the Nation’ just before Rice, said there was “no doubt” that the attack on Americans in Benghazi “was preplanned.” Rice rebutted the Libyan official, arguing — falsely, it turned out — that there was no evidence of such planning. . . . Obama can do better at State than Susan Rice.

Frankly the same could be said of many national security positions at this point. The American people made their choice in November on the president, but it now appears they were duped regarding the real facts concerning Benghazi. What are we going to do about that?

Bureaucrats. At the time the information was considered "Secret". The U.N. Ambassador can't go on 5 national TV talk shows and say classified information. The "secret" part was redacted and it never made it to the release for the public.

This is public information.

They kept it "secret" because they were hunting the perpetrators down and didn't want them to know they were in the cross-hairs of the USA.

There were reporters at the scene two weeks before the FBI got there. Your crosshairs are pure bullshit. There are a lot of things in this entire fiasco that seem secret. All seem to be protecting the state department and the White House.

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Pretty obvious the president knew about it. Pretty lame he thinks so highly of himself that he needs to scapegoat someone for his failures rather than manning up and taking the blame.
Pretty pathetic that the media is so in love with him that they will not report on it until after the election.
Pretty amazing the American people have become so apathetic to not care.

I actually feel bad for the dog-eating-Kenyan that he is such a little man that his ego keeps him from admitting a mistake, to the tune of fabricating cover-up after cover-up to protect his fragile ego.

This is no different that the massive cover-ups and lack of reporting associated with fast and furious and the gun-running to Mexico as an attempt to strip Americans of their constitutional rights.

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There were reporters at the scene two weeks before the FBI got there. Your crosshairs are pure bullshit. There are a lot of things in this entire fiasco that seem secret. All seem to be protecting the state department and the White House.

I always remember during a murder investigation how the police spokesperson\chief always come out and tell the public who they think murderer is and how they did it in the opening stages of the investigation. lol

If there is anything secret IMO it has to do with the CIA and what kinds of ops they were running out of the embassy and their other facility

Pretty obvious the president knew about it. Pretty lame he thinks so highly of himself that he needs to scapegoat someone for his failures rather than manning up and taking the blame.
Pretty pathetic that the media is so in love with him that they will not report on it until after the election.
Pretty amazing the American people have become so apathetic to not care.

I actually feel bad for the dog-eating-Kenyan that he is such a little man that his ego keeps him from admitting a mistake, to the tune of fabricating cover-up after cover-up to protect his fragile ego.

This is no different that the massive cover-ups and lack of reporting associated with fast and furious and the gun-running to Mexico as an attempt to strip Americans of their constitutional rights.

The hatred and resentment this president has for America is appalling, the fact that his supporters are either blind to it or support it, is equally appalling.Posted via Mobile Device

You must still have your fingers in your ears and your eyes shut, because they reelected him 11 days ago.

Have you ever heard about the little boy who cried wolf? For the past 2 decades the GOP have been crying wolf. Suddenly, you are appalled at the concept of the townspeople not sprinting to the rescue.

Sure pal. Whatever. Feel free to document my statement. When this is settled and everything is out there. Feel free to throw it up in my face, But you might want to ask Banyon what happened the last time he called BS on me about Benghazi.

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I always remember during a murder investigation how the police spokesperson\chief always come out and tell the public who they think murderer is and how they did it in the opening stages of the investigation. lol

If there is anything secret IMO it has to do with the CIA and what kinds of ops they were running out of the embassy and their other facility

Stupid ass Broadwell spilled the beans of one black op taking place there........

Broadwell went on to explain more sensitive details from the Benghazi attacks, particularly concerning what the real cause might have been.

“Now, I don’t know if a lot of you heard this, but the CIA annex had actually, um, had taken a couple of Libyan militia members prisoner and they think that the attack on the consulate was an effort to try to get these prisoners back. So that’s still being vetted.”

Bureaucrats. At the time the information was considered "Secret". The U.N. Ambassador can't go on 5 national TV talk shows and say classified information. The "secret" part was redacted and it never made it to the release for the public.

This is public information.

They kept it "secret" because they were hunting the perpetrators down and didn't want them to know they were in the cross-hairs of the USA.

I don't believe that for a second. If they wanted to keep sources and methods wrapped up, they shouldn't have sent the UN ambassador out there at all.

They should have said NOTHING if that was the case.

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You must still have your fingers in your ears and your eyes shut, because they reelected him 11 days ago.

Your reading comprehension is on par with a dyslexic four year old with down syndrome, yeah I know he was re-elected(although I still question the results) that's what my post was about.

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